2017 Reading List

Rishav Mukherji
2 min readDec 15, 2016

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I will add reviews as I start reading things from this list:

  1. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspired Innovation (Tim Brown)
  2. Born a Crime (Tervor Noah)
  3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in American City (Matthew Desmond)
  4. Hamilton: The Revolution (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
  5. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Atul Gawande)
  6. The Only Rule Is It Has To Work: Our Wild Experiment in Building a New Kind of Baseball Team (Ben Lindenbergh)
  7. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Jane Mayer)
  8. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Andrew Hunt)
  9. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini)
  10. Code: An Essay (Paul Ford)
  11. And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East (Richard Engel)
  12. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Ashlee Vance)
  13. The Connected Company (Dave Gray)
  14. Everyday Zen: Love and work (Charlotte Joko Beck)
  15. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Cal Newport)
  16. Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Gabriel Weinberg)
  17. Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice after Serial (Rabia Chaudry)
  18. Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You (John Warrillow)
  19. The Greatest Salesman in the World (Og Mandino)
  20. Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
  21. Ego Is The Enemy (Ryan Holiday)
  22. Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success (Angela Duckworth)
  23. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Junger Sebastian)
  24. The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
  25. Marketing, A Love Story: How to Matter to Your Customers (Bernadette Jiwa)
  26. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Frederick Brooks Jr.)
  27. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Nir Eyal)
  28. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal (Jared Diamond)
  29. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)
  30. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Clayton M. Christensen)

If you have any suggestions about adding/removing books to the above list, definitely let me know. :)

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